For two days at the end of next week, I will be attending a brain-storming conference to discuss ways to help mitigate the collateral damage experienced by people with metastatic breast cancer. This discussion will include patient advocates who have MBC, and patient advocates who have had non-metastatic breast cancer and are clinicians who treat […]

It’s been just over a month since my friend Jody died on May 18, 2016 of metastatic breast cancer. What would have been her 62nd birthday is coming up at the end of this week. Like many of us who were privileged to know her, I am still reeling from her loss. It still hurts […]

Being a breast cancer patient can be lonely. Even with supportive friends and family, no one really knows what it’s like to endure the shock, anger, grief, and stress of being diagnosed with cancer, and then to undergo the scorched-earth treatment of it. No one knows what it’s like to put up with exhortations to […]

Clutter in the attic. Wisely, I took two weeks off work during the beginning of Pinktober. This allowed me to post, comment, and hopefully help push the dialogue about genuine breast cancer awareness during the much-dreaded month of pointless pinksploitation. Highlights included promoting the efforts of Met Up, featuring the Die-In that took place in […]

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